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George Hunt was born in 1854 at Fort Rupert, British Columbia (B.C.), the second of eleven children of Robert Hunt (1828-1893), a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader from Dorset, England, and Mary Ebbetts (Ansnaq, Anislaga, A'naeesla'ga or Anain) (1823-1919), a member of the Raven clan of the Taantakwáan tribe of the Tlingit nation of what is now southeastern Alaska.
Many of these countries, while retaining strong British English or American English influences, have developed their own unique dialects, which include Indian English and Philippine English. Chief among other native English dialects are Canadian English and Australian English, which rank third and fourth in the number of native speakers. [4]
Language portal; This category contains both accents and dialects specific to groups of speakers of the English language. General pronunciation issues that are not specific to a single dialect are categorized under the English phonology category.
In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) George Hunt (with megaphone), Edward S. Curtis, and actors filming In The Land of the Head Hunters Another production still.. In the Land of the Head Hunters (also called In the Land of the War Canoes) is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples of the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia ...
In the 1990s, dialect coaches became significant in the film industry as more filmmakers began employing them to train actors to speak in accents. The Los Angeles Times described the general training approach, "It's a process that involves repetition, studying audio- and videotapes, visits to locations where the characters live, along with breathing and vocal exercises."
The English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) is the most comprehensive dictionary of English dialects ever published, compiled by the Yorkshire dialectologist Joseph Wright (1855–1930), with strong support by a team and his wife Elizabeth Mary Wright (1863–1958). [1]
George Hunt (Royal Navy officer) (1916–2011), highly decorated Second World War submarine commander; George Hunt (MP) (c. 1720–1798), British politician; George Nelson Hunt III (1931–2022), Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island; G. W. Hunt (George William Hunt, 1837–1904), English writer of music hall songs
The earliest varieties of an English language, collectively known as Old English or "Anglo-Saxon", evolved from a group of North Sea Germanic dialects brought to Britain in the 5th century. Old English dialects were later influenced by Old Norse-speaking Viking invaders and settlers, starting in the 8th and 9th centuries.